I finished The Palace Job tonight. It was really great! It felt like a PG-13 to the Gentlemen Bastard's hard R, which was almost refreshing in a way.
Now I need something else to read. I'm pretty much open for anything, as long as it's relatively light. I just need something to read during breaks at work.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I didn't enjoy the Palace Job as much as I'd hoped I would, but if you did the sequel is released next month. It's called the Prophecy Con.
I didn't enjoy the Palace Job as much as I'd hoped I would, but if you did the sequel is released next month. It's called the Prophecy Con.
Yeah I really wanted to like it, but
I felt like the characters were never in any peril. They were always, always one step ahead even when it tried really hard to make you think they'd been caught out. It removed all tension for me, as I just waited for the reveal of how they'd Bogus Journeyed something impossible to anticipate, and given themselves a way out. That said, I did find the characters and world enjoyable and would certainly consider picking up the next one.
the Prophecy Con is one of the best titles I have ever heard
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If you liked that, you may enjoy Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede. Mystery, not a heist, and probably PG rather than PG-13, but very fun. Alt-history Regency England.
I wish I could find some kind of Cliff Notes for the previous Malazan books that would not spoil the book I am currently reading. It has been a long time. I am reading Reaper's Gale, which is the seventh book in the series, and I feel like my memory is a little rusty.
I will still hold up The Seven Per Cent Solution as a good example of the form but it just went downhill too fast from there
Yeah, The Seven Per Cent Solution is a legitimately good take on the Holmes mythology, and I think I actually like the scenario it presents better than the original canon's take on those two years.
Hey guys this Witcher stuff is actually quite good
The tone is fairly different from the games - Geralt isn't taking on dozens of monsters at a time. It's almost more like a horror movie, or an old-school vampire hunter kind of thing
Planning a kill takes strategy and timing and preparation of potions and weapons before going into the thing's lair. You can't just grab a sharp stick and do some kung fu and call it good. It's quite tense!
Also some of the stories hit some emotions! The not-Beauty and the Beast one particularly.
I keep wanting to say something clever about the opinions of the characters that everyone who has just started reading it are having, but after going through like half a dozen in my head I think it is almost impossible to talk about the book at all without letting the twist slip.
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Continued Gone Girl spoilers (up to the halfway point)
Okay I actually suspected that was what was going on, and let me reiterate: HUGE ASSHOLES
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Hmm I really slowed down with this Malazan book (Midnight Tides) for a little while. It threw me off to have a whole new setting. Now that I'm familiar with the characters I'm picking up speed again. Bug, Tehol, Trull and Udinaas are all quickly becoming series faves. Actually, now that I think about it I should probably blame my slowdown on getting a PS Vita and not on the book.
I'm on the first short story collection, The Last Wish
The second anthology hasn't had an official English translation so I'm just going to move on to the first novel, Blood of Elves
I too was super surprised that they introduced a completely new setting. I can't really think of another series I've read that does that. These books though, they are so great. I really love the characters. I think you're absolutely right about Karsa being terrifying. When I first started the book with him I didn't really like him. Probably because he is horrible, and murderous. But the further along I got, and the more I learned about him, the more I actually came to sympathize with him and maybe even like him a little? Do the books keep getting better? Because I feel like it's happened so far but I don't think it can possibly continue. They are already so good!
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A letter to the main characters in Gone Girl:
YOU ARE ALL BAD PEOPLE
GO AND SIT AND FEEL BAD ABOUT YOURSELVES FOR BEING BAD
... ESPECIALLY YOU, AMY
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Does anyone know any good books about life during the so-called Middle Ages? I'm interested in books about the lives of every day people, rather than clergy or royalty.
I can assure you, the books keep getting better, at least as far as I have read, Reaper's Gale
Toll the Hounds stylistically is a bit different, and I've seen people comment on it. But it grows on you, and more importantly it doesn't get in the way when the payoff scenes happen. And hooboy, there are doozies.
Dust of Dreams had a plotline that made me absolutely furious, I was about ready to throw my book across the room. But aside from that, the books are pretty solid up to the end.
Does anyone know any good books about life during the so-called Middle Ages? I'm interested in books about the lives of every day people, rather than clergy or royalty.
I thought Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett was good. It's historical fiction, but I don't know how accurate it is. It's about the building of a cathedral in England in the middle ages. I remember it being lengthy, though since you like the Malazan books that probably won't bother you
Does anyone know any good books about life during the so-called Middle Ages? I'm interested in books about the lives of every day people, rather than clergy or royalty.
I thought Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett was good. It's historical fiction, but I don't know how accurate it is. It's about the building of a cathedral in England in the middle ages. I remember it being lengthy, though since you like the Malazan books that probably won't bother you
I might have mentioned it earlier, but I'm reading the Anglo Saxon Tales books by Bernard Cornwell. It's about the life of a warrior back around 900AD in England and I've been enjoying them. It's historical fiction so some of the events didn't happen the way they were written, but I think the author tries to be as truthful as he can be about most of the details of things.
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I love The Last Wish. I wish they would translate all the rest of the Witcher books. You would have thought with how well the games sell it would seem like a worthwhile thing to do.
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Finally moving on to Republic of Thieves. Which I should be able to crank out before Acceptance drops on 9/2.
Now I need something else to read. I'm pretty much open for anything, as long as it's relatively light. I just need something to read during breaks at work.
Yeah I really wanted to like it, but
Buuuut...
I really can't remember anything about that book except there was a floating prison and a magic hammer.
It's just a boring subpar Holmes pastiche and no amount of Oscar Wilde is gonna change that
Boooo
What a bummer.
Yeah, The Seven Per Cent Solution is a legitimately good take on the Holmes mythology, and I think I actually like the scenario it presents better than the original canon's take on those two years.
The tone is fairly different from the games - Geralt isn't taking on dozens of monsters at a time. It's almost more like a horror movie, or an old-school vampire hunter kind of thing
Planning a kill takes strategy and timing and preparation of potions and weapons before going into the thing's lair. You can't just grab a sharp stick and do some kung fu and call it good. It's quite tense!
Also some of the stories hit some emotions! The not-Beauty and the Beast one particularly.
Be sure to try out the novels proper, too
Chronologically should I have started with the novels?
Of note, Geralt meets Yennefer in one of those stories
Spoilered for a totally non-spoilery opinion about the characters of Gone Girl
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
PSN- AHermano
I don't think
But if you consider it so, I will spoil it
(I started reading Gone Girl)
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
@Grey Ghost
which book are you reading?
I'm on the first short story collection, The Last Wish
The second anthology hasn't had an official English translation so I'm just going to move on to the first novel, Blood of Elves
also, I too slowed down the malazan series with that book, @nicopernicus
it was pretty damn bold to introduce a whole new setting and whole new characters five books into a series
that book is really, really good
and holy shit each book is actually better than the last
onrack and trull are amazing
all of the bridgeburners are amazing
karsa is amazing and terrifying
GO AND SIT AND FEEL BAD ABOUT YOURSELVES FOR BEING BAD
... ESPECIALLY YOU, AMY
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Toll the Hounds stylistically is a bit different, and I've seen people comment on it. But it grows on you, and more importantly it doesn't get in the way when the payoff scenes happen. And hooboy, there are doozies.
Dust of Dreams had a plotline that made me absolutely furious, I was about ready to throw my book across the room. But aside from that, the books are pretty solid up to the end.
I thought Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett was good. It's historical fiction, but I don't know how accurate it is. It's about the building of a cathedral in England in the middle ages. I remember it being lengthy, though since you like the Malazan books that probably won't bother you
Dont read the six gun tarot
And no I still dont know what the title means
I might have mentioned it earlier, but I'm reading the Anglo Saxon Tales books by Bernard Cornwell. It's about the life of a warrior back around 900AD in England and I've been enjoying them. It's historical fiction so some of the events didn't happen the way they were written, but I think the author tries to be as truthful as he can be about most of the details of things.
It was pulpy nonsense with all elements of supernatural and religion thrown in.
What did you expect out of it?